27 December

By the way, had a lovely Christmas, except for part of the family suffering from Covid. So let’s talk about Covid! That thing infecting your friends and loved ones, in the pet and Christmas pictures. (It’s even infecting the pets.) Libertarian politicians strategise new spin every single day. Blame for the mounting disaster in NSW is cleverly being shunted home to the Queensland Premier. Libertarians love blaming women, it’s their favourite thing, and if they’re Labor women, they tap into both spin and misogyny. They’re also blaming pathology labs. NSW is facing a disaster because the NSW Government made no plans for surges in infection and testing leading into Christmas, and created those same surges by idiotically opening up the State to Omicron, at a time when it knew everything was shutting down for Christmas. The middle-aged conservative blokes blathering on about ‘personal responsibility’ never take responsibility, for anything. (Notice the PM has disappeared on holiday, as he did in the bushfires.)